Facebook Sued Over Privacy

A group of five Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the site in California's Orange Country Supreme alleging that the social network violates the states privacy laws. Facebook, for its part, doesn't seem to be taking the suit all that seriously. "We see no merit to this suit and we plan to fight it," said a Facebook spokesman.

A group of five Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the site in California's Orange Country Supreme alleging that the social network violates the states privacy laws. Facebook, for its part, doesn't seem to be taking the suit all that seriously. "We see no merit to this suit and we plan to fight it," said a Facebook spokesman.

Facebook is accused of spreading "personal information," which, for the record, is pretty much exactly what the site was designed to do. According to The Associated Press, the plantiffs are also accusing the site of, "data mining and harvesting without fully disclosing those practices to its members."

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.
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